MS releases WTL under the GPL and Wix under the CPL

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WTL (Windows Template Library)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wtl/

Windows Template Library (WTL) is a C++ library for developing Windows applications and UI components. It extends ATL (Active Template Library) and provides a set of classes for controls, dialogs, frame windows, GDI objects, and more.

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3353341

more info...

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WindowsTemplateLibrary

http://www.codeproject.com/wtl/

http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=107385&threshold=-1&mode=thread&commentsort=3&op=Change

pros: provides a lightweight wrapper around the Win32 API, does not depend on any external DLLs, very clean, STL-friendly, produces tiny executabless that run fast
cons: poor documentation, depends on (proprietary)ATL


WiX (Windows Installer XML)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/

The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and MSM setup packages.

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3336291

more info...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/windows_installer_start_page.asp

http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2004/04/05/107709.aspx

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=102931&threshold=1&mode=thread&commentsort=3&op=Change

http://www.advancedinstaller.com/

[night2dark2]

Nice. Will help me in coding without having to do Extensive adding of GUI components.